This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $450,000 to New York University (NYU) from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The award will support the university's research to test the hypothesis that ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are produced in binary neutron star mergers. Key objectives include developing tools to exploit UHECR composition data from the Pierre Auger Observatory,...
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) was awarded a three-year, $527,708 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds global kinetic modeling and particle-in-cell simulations by Columbia University researchers to better understand the intrabinary shock in "spider pulsars," which are rapidly rotating neutron stars in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $678,343 to the University of Chicago supports research to unravel the physical processes responsible for the acceleration of ions in active galactic nuclei (AGN) outflows. The project aims to use semi-analytical formalism and plasma simulations to model ion acceleration at AGN wind shocks and relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations to calculate the expected spectra of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and neutrinos from AGN...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $270,893 Project Grant to Columbia University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: WOU-MMA: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN FLUID AND PLASMA SCALES IN AGN JETS." The three-year award, issued September 1, 2021 with a completion date of August 31, 2024, will support collaborative research between Columbia University and other institutions to advance understanding of the major...
This $590,559 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a three-year research program led by Columbia University. The program aims to perform computer simulations that predict the radiation emitted from neutron star winds and how it propagates through the debris of stellar explosions. The research will also apply these calculations to spinning neutron stars created from the merger of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, provided under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support a comprehensive theoretical investigation into the impact of cosmic rays on the interstellar medium and galactic evolution. The $328,320 grant, awarded on August 15, 2024, will enable researchers at Princeton University to carry out 3D simulations that systematically and quantitatively assess the role of cosmic rays in regulating the state of the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $289,379 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University, doing business as Princeton University, for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. This award falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, this award will support collaborative research to constrain...
This three-year, $292,265 National Science Foundation project grant funds research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CDS & E: COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPHYSICS WITH MACHINE LEARNING SIMULATIONS (CAMELS) TO MAXIMIZE THE SCIENCE RETURN OF NEXT GENERATION COSMOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS" through the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The Trustees of Columbia University in New York will utilize machine learning techniques to conduct cosmological simulations that support...
Columbia University was awarded a $337,146 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support research into mass/momentum beyond classical gravity and submanifolds of higher codimensions from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major...
This $450,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Project Grant, awarded on August 1, 2023, will fund theoretical research and modeling to further the understanding of neutrinos and their role in multi-messenger astrophysics. Key focus areas include the physics of neutrinos from core collapse supernovae, predictions of the diffuse flux of cosmological supernovae, and interpretation of the observed flux of TeV-PeV neutrinos from outside our galaxy. The research aims to develop...